Study: Mumps passed in school

Research faults face-to-face study methods

10:30 AM,
Nov. 6, 2012

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A study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine concludes that the long hours and face-to-face study methods in Jewish schools contributed to an outbreak of mumps in Rockland County and New York City more than two years ago.

The report also showed that people who had been fully vaccinated but got the disease anyway had a less severe form of the illness and passed it on to fewer people.

There were many lessons to be learned from the outbreak, said Oscar Alleyne, an epidemiologist with the Rockland Department of Health and a co-author of the New England Journal study. ...